CuriousMars: Triple Sample Set for SAM, as NASA Cheers Revived Plutonium Production “Restarting science operations after 3 weeks of computer problems, the Mars rover Curiosity will be using its robotic […]
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Mars Continues to Surprise Us
CuriousMars: SAM and CheMin Ace Rock Analysis, Ready for More, SpaceRef “The Mars rover Curiosity is this week in the midst of potentially historic discoveries as the full range of […]
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Testing for Mars Organics
CuriousMars: Rover Poised to Test For Organics Where Habitability Potential is High, SpaceRef “The Mars rover Curiosity’s team is beginning to amass enough diverse science data to actively consider whether […]
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Curiosity Rover Drilling Debate
CuriousMars: Scientists Disagree on Timing of Departure from Drilling Site, SpaceRef “The $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover is beginning detailed analysis of the first subsurface rock sample acquired […]
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Waiting for More Martian Secrets
CuriousMars: Drilling For Martian Secrets, SpaceRef “Two powerful laboratories inside the Mars rover Curiosity are being readied to process the first powdered samples of subsurface Martian rock obtained by the […]
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Malibu and Mars
CuriousMars: California Dreamin’ on a Martian Day, Craig Covault, SpaceRef “There are already plenty of stars around Malibu, California, but could the place be actually like the planet Mars? The […]
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Pete Theisinger on Mars Exploration Rovers Longevity
CuriousMars: Opportunity’s First Project Manager Hails Longevity, SpaceRef “The NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is beginning its 10th year roving Mars, completing nine years of “shocking” performance and historic discoveries […]
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Clues Reveal More of Mars's Watery Past
CuriousMars: Curiosity to Drill into ‘Whole Different World’, SpaceRef “As the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) science team completes final assessments of the mission’s first drilling target in the bedrock at […]
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Candidate Selected for the First Rock Drilling on Mars
CuriousMars: Curiosity’s Critical Rock Drilling Target Selected as Opportunity Achieves Major Science Goal, SpaceRef “After weeks of searching, the Mars rover Curiosity’s science and engineering teams have selected a fine-grained […]
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Mars Orbiters Aplenty
CuriousMars: 2013 to Debut U. S. and Indian Mars Atmospheric Orbiters while Challenging China In Asian Space Race, SpaceRef “Mars will be thrust into international politics during 2013 as India […]